The Sun. — London, England, 1818-07-31 00:00:00

Aracieod, of rtassay, and was carried nnani tnotssly. Mr. CummEs GRANT then addressed the Meet ing in the I..Jiowing terms : " GPNTLPMEN,—You have been pleased to accept the offer which I made to you of my ser vices as Representative of this County in Parlia ment. When I presumed to make that offer, I did so with doubt and apprehension -- I was frar-, fill lest it ought seem to savour of presumption. l'rom sue!) apprehensions your kindness has this sky relier . (A-ms-. I thank yon, Gentlemen, with the , warinest feelings of gratitude and respect, for. the honour you have just conferred upon tne--4 thank y*On for the manner is which you have con ferred it, and by which, highly as I esteem the honour, it is in lily view enhanced and dignified. To you, Getitletnen, who have given me the favour of your presence this day, and in some in stances from very distant places, with consider able trouble and fatigue, I am bound to present my ack 1101 V ledgmenrs. To those Gentlemen who have made and seconded the nomination, 1 must vxp , ess my sense of their goodness ; and espe cially to my honourable friend Glengarry, for the very handsome teems in which he has expressed himself. I feel myself particularly obliged to allude to one lion. Gent. (Macleod) whom I now have in my eye. From that Gentleman, ever since I have had occasion to have any communi cation with him, I have experienced only courteousness and liberality of conduct—and this day he has given proofs of the same honourable and generous spirit. lam aware of his just pre tensions, with reference both to antiquity of fatnfly, to extensive influence, and to personal character and qualifications, to the attention of the county. I admire the frankness and feeling with which be has delivered his sentiments ; and I only wish that the county may not see reason to repent his having relinquished, for the present at least, the desire, so natural and so honourable to himself, to serve you in Parliament. " But, Gentlemen,w bile 1 thank those whom I have the happiness to see around me, it would be unjust if I were to confine my acknowledg ments to those who are present. Many of those who are alisent are equally entitled to my thanks. From many of them I have received assurances that I possess their cordial good will, and that pressing circumstances alone could have detained them from participating in the proceedings of this d ty. " them, therefore, Gentlemen, and to you. I tender my hest thanks,—,l thank you for the marks of your personal regard,-1 thank you for the testimonies of public confidence. " 1 deed, Gentlemen, I have reason to thank you ; when I reflect on the circumstances tinder which I now appear before you, and remember to Avhom I (rive the power of so appearing ; when I Consider the extent and magnitude of the inte rests oow entrusted to my charge ; when I recol lect how large and valuable a portion of the Bri tish Ein ! ,ire is formed by Scotland, and of that portion how importanla part by the County of Inverness ; when I remember the character of the people whom I am called to represent—a people eminently gifted with those qualities which are usually and justly attributed to our countrymen, morality, virtue, inflexible faith, and invincible valour ; when I recollect the names of those by whom I am surrounded—names connected with the ancient glories of Scotland—names which have been transmitted from age to age through Successive generations,, and which have lost none of their brightness in their last and more recent transmission ; when I remember that to this country I have been taught, front my first child hood, to look with fondness and filial affection— that with its scenery, the habits and manners of its inhabitants, with its history, have been en• twined the earliest associations of my youth, and the more sober and mature thoughts of ripening ages when I call to mind that this honour is con ferred upon me, while those are yet able to value it, for whose sake every honour is to me doubly precious—when I reflect on these things, I can not restrain the swellings, I will not say of self sufficiency or vanity, but of ardent gratitude and personal attachment towards those who have hid me under such deep obligations. I should indeed be in danger of being carried away by feelings of immingled exultation, if I could forget, on the one hand, that I owe this obligation more—infi nitely more, to your kindness than to my own desert ; or it I could forget, on the other hand, what are the duties and responsibilities annexed to this office—responsibilities which, highly as I estimate the honour of this situation, do yet sur mount and overtop even the eminence of that distinction. " I cannot forget, Gentlemen--I du not wish to forget, that it is mainly to your kindness ►hat 1 owe this honour ; that it is to your just sense of the services of one to whom you have this day paid the tribute of your approbation ; that it is to your confident hope, that as I ought to be the last person io de‘iate from his example and abandon hii principles, so in this instance my in clination will second my duty. These cousidera• Lions, though they tend to depress any vanity on my part, yet throw a more interesting character . on 'he connexion that has been formed between us--a connexion built on public principles, and held together by the most powerful and venerable ties in private life. Neither do I wish, Gentle men, to forget the duties which are involved in this office. 1 know there are duties of personal friendship, the most gratifying, though not the least difficult to execute. 1 know there are duties of local obligation, duties arising from the pecu liar situation of this part of the. Empire—duties at all times important—at this time of special importance. This may be truly described as a crisis in the fate of this country, in which a transition is now taking place from one state of society to another—a crisis, therefore, requiring, on the part of all who are interested in its wel fare, wisdom, promptitude, and humanity, to avert what may be contingent, to mitigate what is inevitable. in the difficulties resulting from the necessary progress of civilized life. I know, further, t hat there are ditties of public obligation— duties to the Empire at large—these too aredu ties at all times—at this time of paramount im- pio•tance in the affairs of the Empire : alco this is a peculiar crisis, ex!tcting on the part of the le g.slature the strenuous applicati on o f sound sense, political wisdom, 'anti genuine; patriotism, to reconcile what may be termed the discordancies of our situation ; to nourish the resources, and to reduce; 'lit every possible degree, the burtheus of the people ; and, at the same time, to pre serve the lofty and splendid position which we hare•acgttired, and which no man will be disposed to undervalue, who remembers bow deeply and cs4entially, in a great and tree country, the hap piness and, comforts of every individual are in rolved in the national greatness, power, and in dependence, "." I have alluded to the subject of general po licy. I . will not now enter into it. It would in deed be delightful to me, if I could persuade my self) that on every, the most minute question or political conduct, the opinions of every individual in this country -coincided with mine. But I knoW, that in a free state, as has ,been justly re marked to-day, it would be idle to expect such un it to y, nor, i n a p u bli c v iew, wou ld it b e de sirable. I know that this diversity of opinion is not only the result of a free Constitution, but a proof and pledge of the soundness and healthiness of the political system. But, whatever may be our difference of opinion on topics,which, though of extreme importance, are yet comparatively not of the first importance, 1 know that as to great and radical pi inciples we are agreed. With re spect to any particular line Of policy, we may differ ; with respect to the measures which ought to be pursued at any giv,n period, we may differ; with respect to the mode of administering the Constitution, we may differ ; but here our dit ferences cease ; with respect to the Constitution itselt, under which our fathers have reposed in safety, and under which we ourselves have achieved such greatness ; with respect to the necessity, the indispensable duty, of maintain ing that Constitution in all its parts, anti of trans- milting it uniint.aired to our posterity, we are one and indivisible. Against those pernicious maxims of modern times, which, tinder the pretext of cor recting, would subvert the Constitution ; against that system, if any thing so vague in its notions, an:l so irregular in its movements, can be called a system ; against that system, as false in policy as it is spurious in philoophy, as absurd in theory as it is tool and bloody in practice ; against that system, which has tor its object spoliation, and for ►ts means impiety and anarchy—which would teach us that Government as such is oppression— that social order and tyranny are synonimous terms—that the law of property is the law of rob bery—That there is nothing sacred in morals, nothing venerable and adorable in religon ; against this system, I am persuaded that we are prepared, heart and hand, to contend, even to the last gasp We love the Constitution ; we know what it has done for us• For to what cause under Providence can we ascribe the power and prosperity of this country To what cause is it owing, that Great Britain has attained such pre eminence among all nations 2 That she is so dreaded, admired, respected, and beloved ; dread ed, as supreme in arms ; admired, as supreme in arts ; respected, as supreme in virtue; beloved, as supreme in charity ? to her national spirit to her wealth, her industry, her commercial and agrieultural skill Undoubtedly to. all those ; hut above all these, and above them, not as ex eluding, but as embracing and comprehending them all to the British Constitution—that Consti- tution which is equal to the rich and the poor, which guards inviolate alike the cottages of our peasantry, the palaces of our nobles, the throne of our king, and the altar of our God, that Con- stitution of which it is the happy peeuliarity that it has grown with the growth of this nation, and has adjusted itself to all the movements and,pro gress of a great people, developing its capacities with their enlarging powers and unfolding re- sources—that Constitution, its'a word, was the cradle that sheltered our infancy, is now the inag. nificent temple in which our manhood is conse crated to virtue and renown. " Gentlemen, I have detained you, perhaps, too long, yet I cannot sit down without once more expressing the feelings evith which I MU impress ed. You have public claims upon me. h shall be my endeavour at least that they are satisfied. But I beg to say in return, that I also have claims upon you. You have plAced me in honour ; you have imposed upon me a sacred trust ; in the dis charge ot that trust, so lung as my motives and intentions are unimpeaehed, I claim your support and protection ; for whatever may be erroneous in my public conduct, I claim your forgiveness and indulgence; for whatever may he doubtful, I claim your candid and generous interpretation ; for whatever may be last table, I claim your ap probation ; whatever may be my failings, believe me that towards you at least, they shall be fail ings not of the heart but ot the head. It shall he my strenuous aim, that when I am called to sur render the trust now committed to we, 1 may be able to ask you, Nvit bout a blush, it your confi dence has been misplaced. I am proud of my Constitnents. It shall be the ambition of my life that you shall have no reason to be ashamed of your Representative." (Mr. GRANT sat down amidst thunders of applause.] A motion that time Alerting should adjourn the consideration of other business was unanimously approved of. When the audience was beginning to disperse, at the suggestion of Glengarry, they greeted the new Member with three hearty cheers, the spi rited Chieftain taking the lead. A splendid entertainment was afterwards given in the Northern Meeting Rooms, by Mr. Grant, to the Freeholders , &c. The company were nu merous, and the evening passed in the utmost harmony and conviviality. Many toasts were given, of dearest interest to us us Highlanders, and participators in the blessings of the British Con stitution, which drew forth numerous speeches of vivid and spontaneous eloquence. In the coarse of the evening, Mr. Grant's health was drank, as Secretary for Ireland, amidst the most tumul tuous and enthusiastic applause. We were de lighted with the enlightened vietvu which he dia• covered to us in a short but feeling speech, when adverting to his appointment in that unhappy country. We know he has the will, and We gust he will have the pov-er, to do much for its 'me lioration. The eyes of his countrymen will be upon him, the breast of a True Highlawder must ever he solicitous for the welfare of " Eirinicb !bod)." CONTR.IC2' FOR TANNED HIDES. Navy- Office. 3014 July ISI B. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and COM MISSIONERS (V . HIS .111,1.1ESTY'S I'Y do herthy give Notice, that on Wednesday, the 12th of August next, at one o'Cloch, they will be malty to treat with sleek Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying his Ma jesty's Yard, at Deptford, with TANNED Pattern of the hides, and a Form of the Tender, may be seen at this Office. No Tender will be received after One o'Clock on the Day of Treaty, nor any noticed unless :the Party, or an Agent for him, attends. Every Tender must be accompanied by a Letter addressed to Me Navy Board, and signed by two responsible Persons, engaging to become bound with the I'cl-sun tendering, ire the Sum of 5001. fur the due polormanee of the Contract. NEXT TUESDAY LOTTERY DRA «S.—TWO 0f,C.30,000 TWO of Z. 2,000, 2,000 SOVEREIGNS, CLARET, PORT, MADEIRA, GOLD.—ONLY 8,000 TICKETS. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Lost Night. THEATRE ROYAL, FlaymanKET.— , The Rival Soldiers : SioL clair, Mr. Duruset ; Mary, Miss Matthews. After which, Teasing made Easy. To which was athltd, The Critic. MEATH!: ROYAL, ErcuLtstt OPERA, STPLANI)..-.:111e Ameri cans: Captain Wilmot, Mr. Warman; Louisa, Miss After which, Doctor Bolus.. MAILS ARRIVED-1 Dublin, I Waterford, 1 Holland, i Gottenburgh, 1 Lisbon, 1 Flanders. DuE-1 Guernsey and Jersey. PRICE 01. 7 STOCKS THIS IMY AT TWELVE. O'CLocK. Bank Stock ....276i 277 Imperial 3 per Cent. Ann. 76! a per Cent. Red......... 77i1 India Stuck 2821 3 per Cent. Cons. 77/11 India 80nd5...... 94,935. pr. 3A prr Cent B7ll 88A Exch. Bills, 2d... I9s. 21s. pr. 4pc r Cents. 5 per Cent. N. Ann ..... 105 1 Oinnitini Bank L. Ann.... 40t, I 1-16 t hs Cons. fair August ... .77f,4 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.MORROW. Morning, 57 minutes after 1. Evening, 22 minutes after 2 THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DILEHE FALSUM AIWEAT ? LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1818. We received this morning the Paris Papers of Tuesday last. They contain nothing further re-' specting the Conspiracy. The following are extracts:— " PARIS, JULY 28.---Tbe King set out from S Cloud at one o'clock yesterday for Rambouillet, where the greatest preparations have been made for his reception. " Princes and Princesses took their de parture in the morning, in order to be in readiness to receive his Majesty at Rambo uillet. " Messrs. Kean and Young, the two celebrated Actors of London, are now at Paris. I . ' By the Judgment of the Cour Royale yes terday, the sentence upon M. Ferret, the author of l'Homme gris, was mitigated from two years' to one year's imprisonment. " In the evening of the 20th inst. a violent storm did great damage in the .Communes of Meylau and Biviers, about a league from Gre noble. In Riviera a torrent overwhelmed some vineyards and cultivated fields, and surrounded a house, the whole family in which, consisting of a father and mother, a child, and a nurse, perished• The house was filled with a mass of earth, stones, and %ater. " Letters from Bologna announce the death .o Cardinal Lante, Legate of his . Holiness in that Province. " We learn from Florence, the 15th inst. that on the 13th Lord Burghers'', the English Mini ster at the Court of Tuscany, invested Rear-Ad miral Sir Thomas Freemantle with the grand in signia of the Military Order of the Bath. There was a grand fête given on the occasion, which was honoured with the presence of the Grand Duke and the Princes and Princesses of his family. The Banqueting Room was decorated with busts of the Prince Regent, the Duke of Wellington, Mr. Pitt, and Mr. Perceval. FIVE PER CENTS. Monday ...77 f. 45c. DFFERIIEt) bTOCIC.. of the 22d Nim ch, 1817, 97 f. 75c. 22d Sept. 1817, S 5 f. 75 c. 22d March, 181:1, B3 f. tthr. " NURED.IBERG, JULY 20.--At the beginning of August several Prussian corps, stationed in Magdeburg, the Marche of Brandenburg, Pome rania, and the Prussian Dochy of Saxony, will march to the environs of Berlin, to be placed in cantonments, till the arrival of the Kiug of ['cassia and the Elopet or of Russia. " MAY ENCE. JULY 19.—Sinee Prussia has ac quired several fine Provinces on the two banks of the Rhine, the Government has been occupied with the execution of a general plan of defence for these territories. The old places have been repaired, great works have been continued, and on different points new strong plates have been constructed. The Court of Berlin extends also its plans of defence to all the Western Provinces. " A fortress of the first class has been con structed at :Minden, on the Weser, which will cover Lower Saxony, and command Westphalia. Several other fortifications are erecting in West phalia, and towards the frontiers of Holland. " On the side of France, the works of Saar louis have been repaired and streogthePed,— . 11 .-t Ll.Otetirbui'g works ar'e 'continually ettrq iilg i) itt ' in order to make it one of the first fortre ss° Europe. nri - i• " Julit tl, the ~corks of s c re very c --5 vrtil for derable, i s t o b e a gran d p l a t d'a l nes. ' "On the Banks of t h e Rhi n e, three larg e 0 1 resses are to be constructed between 11°/.3 0 , and Bingen, forming a line with Mayelic e ' i l j i clan, and the two new f or t resses which are to erected on the Upper Rhine. tliC " The three grand Prussian fortresses on Rhine will be Wesel, Cologne, and Cubl e°l ; The last mentioned place is to become a forty td of the first class 3 the works are tube exten ded he comprehend the ci-'levant chartreuse, and e ll o f neighbouring neighbouring heights. The celebrated F °rt 0 ,1 Ehrenbreitstein is to be completely repaired, a d it will serve still further to protect the t° Coblentz. • " Between Woe, and Coblentz, Colog ne conies a fortress of imm e n se extent. The an cie s solid walls of thi s city, on w hi c h n umerous t`” 4l iri are erected, has been adapted to the preseut 514 3 g of military Science, and surrounded by a g i rc ei s number of bastions. New towers prot ect I' - bastions as advanced works. f 0 " Wesel is protected on th e o pposite std` ° , er Rhine by Fort Bl uc h er . C o l ogne will be W t. ' protected by the little town of Deutz, opeilgi which is to be made a regular fortress. ping CARLSRUHB, JULY 21 —Yesterday e -v e . ve j the Duke of Ragusa (Marshal Marmon') aril to here on his way to Baden, where he pro Pases stay some time. " Art-LA-CHAPELLE, J ULY cha,pa i--100 Rohe, situated out of the ga t e o f Maestrie bt, oo o a league from this city, has b een hired for 16 ' ore francs , it is believed for the Emperor t ilex re e der. The house Braumerz, in the great strut de I3orcette, and that of Offermans, 0 0 t he b ee n des Capucins, have, it is understood, of taken for the Emperor of Austria and the 14:41$ Prussia. P issiS " BERLIN, JULY 18 . The King of ri pe will return here the 29th or 30th insta lls ' hi period of the arrival of the Emperor of "fuss pot yet known." s pilt A Letter from our Correspondent which we received this day, but lot, late I°r in sertion, states the favourable aspect of ti ff3il :os France, and confirms all that we have said us 0 , Conspiracy, the arrest of CANUEL, sod the O r : , sion of VITRoLLES. It sh a ll a pp ea r to-dO tras M rill "It is strongly suspected," says The i fts Chronicle, with wbudetfal sagacity, `` l " l , lo ci Conspiracy which has been detected in 141 ; 0 0 , had some well-wishers, if not direct his tl6 o %oot in other Countries."—" There needs ti ° bg ti u° come from the grave to tell us this." - tr ieso there are bete also, as well as in other C ad" ale well-wishers to the cause of Treason an d on b e tiou : and as to " direct Instigators," 114 p found every day in the Paper in questio9' OA be remembered that we first comento ic° %ose account of this Conspiracy, and were to 013 quence assailed by the doubts, th ,„areas t "" eo , it the censures of other Journals. " th • fi lo l.l ,ar I now appears" that we were correct i 4 ;nation, and all the other Journals, Ih uug r i s e may affect to ridicule the plot, and 10 t 0 Conspirators, are obliged to admit the sr d die our statement, though none of them ha ve ha grace to acknowledge their error. s oon' LIVERPOOL, JULY 29.—Arrived th e 0 .41 9 led t h ' 66' NEWCOMBE, from Savannah. St° 3 long' June, and on the 30th, iu lat. 35. 4 . • tide 59. was plundered by the indict/I Il u i v o e t r il ' es , Spanish colours, of money, watches , c provisions. We have stated, upon the best Wort:l36°' l op the Commissioners appointed to act teed littouGHAM'S Act, as Stiled, Were SCleCrel : t ll 6 as respectable Persons as could be fou nd frln.eoll Country. We have stated also that the two .',l- of Mr. BuoucirAm, who essentially assisted bleirte preparing his Bill, made no application to Go do t 3 /1 meta to lie included in the Coint u is:j oo, 4 no application was made in their favour, al"yero, pointed out the folly of supposing that 6° 01 1)1i went was to go in search of them, liguelisr' in entreat them to condescend to he lin:hided td .o, its The Chronicle th is day return.; to the suhieers'eciotls usual malignant pet tinacity, but ow let' ibe 5 P ! form of a letter, signed " eileiTlY t° ar e The Chronicle forsooth, the col,,inus ‘vhis.-criier jp pregnant with incessant abuse ! lbe s ible says that Lord SIDMOUTH detTlY l e P c't) 00 °1 this matter, anti the " the eyes “ f the i i e no 141 , j ought to be directed with undivided Cuc u in aat t the edv sercise of igi e latiee'tava : . l ( i l e s lt l i hint." Lord SIDNOtITII, tire thing to four grow the mostobselro: sir conduct, and if the eyes of L 11" r .